omg..... lol as funny as this sounds its kinda fucked up

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think about it... what good is a stolen phone. it's so easy to trace those things. it's like have a mini satellite on...

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LOL


she has been pwnt

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so who is the thief? the TAs of NY want to know!!1

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Originally posted by Tranz think about it... what good is a stolen phone. it's so easy to trace those things. it's like have a mini satellite on...

Well, not really bro. If its GSM it cannot be, all you do is change your SIM.

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Originally posted by Sumit_A Well, not really bro. If its GSM it cannot be, all you do is change your SIM.

I guess you're right, if it's on the same network... still lame

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Originally posted by Sumit_A Well, not really bro. If its GSM it cannot be, all you do is change your SIM.

Verizon doesn't use GSM....and Im pretty sure they can flag the ESN number on the phone so if the chick tryed to activate it, they would know it was stollen. As far as switching sims cards on GSM phones.....that will work but they can still track down any phone through the network....companies like Cingular and T-Mobile are just too damn lazy to do it.

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Originally posted by vtec junkie they can flag the ESN number on the phone

There's a huge black market for stolen cell phones.

It's easy to change the ESN if you have the proper software. It's not legal to do, but then again neither is the stealing the phone in the first place.

http://www.cdma-ware.com/unibox.html

Im not sure how Verizon's system works but it was impossible to activate any phone with a bullshit ESN number when I worked for AT&T. All the ESN's were loaded into our system and if the system did not recognize the ESN, it simply would not work. But people always find a way to beat the system.....I bet they are taking the ESN from a shitty phone and programming that ESN to a newer, stollen phone and then getting it activated. Im gonna take a wild guess and say this chick doesn't know jack shit about all that....she prob figured it was a GSM phone.

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Originally posted by vtec junkie Im not sure how Verizon's system works but it was impossible to activate any phone with a bullshit ESN number when I worked for AT&T. All the ESN's were loaded into our system and if the system did not recognize the ESN, it simply would not work. But people always find a way to beat the system.....I bet they are taking the ESN from a shitty phone and programming that ESN to a newer, stollen phone and then getting it activated. Im gonna take a wild guess and say this chick doesn't know jack shit about all that....she prob figured it was a GSM phone.

I doubt that she would bother keeping a phone that she couldn't use. It was probably sold for crack or something.

I had a friend who owned a Verizon franchise and he used a different phone like every other week. He would get phones that Verizon didn't even carry (as long as it was CDMA) and would just call them up, give them his agent code, read them the number (I guess that was the SID?), then tell them that it was a v60 and they would activate it. He used to buy wholesale from companies on the West Coast so many of his phones would have the logos of different carriers - which I always thought was funny.